User:Spinster/My workflow for editing Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata about public art

Statue of Lieven Bauwens (Q88673501) in Ghent, Belgium

(March 2020)

I'm very interested in public art (Q557141), and I regularly edit Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata around this topic.

Recently, I've also started adding structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons on this subject.

In the following three videos I show my typical workflow, demonstrating how I have created a new Wikidata item about Statue of Lieven Bauwens (Q88673501) in Ghent, and how I have enriched photos of this statue on Wikimedia Commons with multilingual, structured data.

Introduction, starting with Wikimedia Commons and checking Wikidata

In a first video (around 6 min) I find a Wikimedia Commons category about a public artwork that does not have a Wikidata item yet. I search Wikidata to double-check this.

Relevant links:

• The Commons category I'm focusing on: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statue_of_Lieven_Bauwens_(Gent)

Creating a Wikidata item

In this second video (around 16 min - detailed explanations!), I go ahead, create a new Wikidata item for this statue, and I add the most important statements to this Wikidata item. My workflow here is probably quite interesting because I use the Mix'n'match tool to create this new Wikidata item and to immediately connect it to several external databases.

Relevant links:

• The Wikidata item I created: Q88673501
• Mix'n'match tool: https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/
• Searching Mix'n'match for Lieven Bauwens: https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?#/search/lieven%20bauwens
• The BALaT database: http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/123992
• The international public art database Statues Hither & Thither: https://vanderkrogt.net/statues/object.php?record=beov027
• The Mix'n'match gadget that I briefly talk about, which integrates (potential) Mix'n'match matches in an item page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/mixnmatch_gadget.js

Enriching Wikimedia Commons with an infobox and structured data

In this third and last video (circa 10 mins), I then return to Wikimedia Commons, adding an infobox to the Commons category about the statue, and adding some structured data to the files in this category.

Relevant links:

• Info and documentation about the Wikidata-driven infobox on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_Infobox
• Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
• The SDC tool - the code contains instructions at the top how to activate it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/sdc_tool.js

Short explainer about Structured Data on Commons

By the way, here's a short (3.5 minute) video that explains Structured Data on Commons.

Comments? Questions? Please post them on my talk page.